What era was the Sung River Uprising?

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong was ignorant and incompetent, and the officials were in power, and the people were in poverty. Thirty-six people, led by Song Jiang, in Yuncheng, Shandong Province, set off a surging peasant uprising. They killed the rich and helped the poor, and they acted heroically, which made the ignorant court frightened and the people applauded.

2. Introduction to the original work

The Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, describes the story of 18 heroes headed by Song Jiang in Liangshan Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and after Juyi, they accepted the enlistment and fought everywhere.

Water Margin is also one of the most epic works in Chinese literature. It is one of the earliest Zhanghui novels written in vernacular Chinese in the history of China. There are many versions, which are widely circulated and well-known, and have a far-reaching influence on narrative literature in China and even East Asia.

3. Creation background

The Water Margin is a great work that has been sorted, processed and created on the basis of hundreds of years of collective creation by the people.

in the southern song dynasty, the heroic stories of Liangshan were widely spread. At that time, the painter and writer Gong Kai's "Song Jiang 36 People Praise and Order" said: The stories of 36 people including Song Jiang have spread all over the streets; Painters also write pictures and shadows for them.

The earliest blueprint of Water Margin is the Song Dynasty's "The Legacy of Xuanhe", which describes Yang Zhi's selling knives, Chao Gai's conspiring to rob the birth class and Song Jiang's killing of Yan Poxi, and also describes the main characters such as Lin Chong, likui jy, Wu Song and Lu Zhishen. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were many stories based on the Water Margin. In Yuan Zaju, Liangshan heroes have grown from 36 to 18.